but i am the saving money on energy type. so we switched to the cold cycle and with tide coldwater his teddy bears are clean. polar bears. that's our tide for conserving energy. >> his name is rick paid in a cuban kid whose family lost everything under fidel castro and came to chicago as political refugees and on a snowy november night their lives were about to be turned upside down again by an apartment fire on this very night nearly half a century ago. this beam that's going across you can see the alligator charging that is still on here from the fire that was 49 years ago. one minute before midnight in 1963, he was 5 years old and it sound asleep in his family's apartment. >> that was the neighbor's apartment that actually knocked on our door and woke us up and pretty much started the ball rolling. snow on the ground, the closest firefighters were on track 44 they had just fought and extra alarm fire that included a rescue when they got the call, fire on melrose people track firefighter ed the already exhausted could have